DILEMMA: Which UG program to go for?

[lordargus]

Hello everyone,
I'd really appreciate if you could spare a minute.

I've finished my high school, and have achieved a decent rank at a premier engineering institute.
Now the problem before me is this: which stream should i go for?
I have always been quite good at physics (Mechanics was my favourite), but just above par at maths.
The options are:
Aerospace engineering
Electronics engineering
Mechanical engineering
Engineering physics

I am a die hard enthusiast of cosmology and all things space, but that does kind of go off at a tangent to engineering.

Please recommend one of these four, bearing in mind job prospects, and that my interests lie towards theoretical physics, and away from electronics.

much obliged.

:)

 

[Angry Citizen]

You're not going to see any theoretical physics in any of those 'proper' engineering programs (I'm not familiar with engineering physics to comment). That having been said, an aerospace engineer is able to work in some of the fields that deal with astronomy and cosmology, but they usually don't do research on these subjects -- normally they help design the equipment that does do the research, such as space telescopes. I'll also say that if you're wanting to go into aerospace engineering, you should beef up your math skills, because of all the disciplines of engineering on your list, I understand aerospace to be the most math-intensive (up to partial diff EQ's).